Five Tricks in Four Days with Rowan Davis

11am // 09.12.2016

Varial heelflip. All photos by Jarrod Knoblauch.

We were in the final stages of filming for the upcoming Arrow Wheels Am video. Rowan had already sent through some sick footage but was keen to film more, so he, along with Dean Parsons and Sam Sutton (who were filming for élan), came to Adelaide to knock out some last minute tricks.

I’ve skated with Rowan on a few trips previously and I’ve always been hyped on his skating and how switched on he seems for someone his age. This trip was no different. He smashed out a bunch of footage, along with these photos, and in the short time he was here he turned the footage he already had into almost a full part.

He's super polite, which is great, but there were times when we’d ask him what he wanted to do. He’d answer, “Whatever you guys want to do”. This usually meant that he was still down to skate, but knew we were pretty much done. After letting him know that it was his decision multiple times, we’d finally end up at the next spot. This was the case on the last night. We’d skated all day and Rowan had already taken revenge on a line he didn’t get previously (within a few minutes).

There was one more trick that he wanted to go back for, and his options were either that night or a super early mission the next day before catching the plane home. We opted for that night, but as soon as we set the lights up it started raining. We waited it out, and being a hot day the spot dried up quickly. Rowan got to work and once again was rolling away within a few minutes. As soon as we’d finished checking the footage the rain set in again and kept pouring until the next day. It worked out perfectly. – Andy Walker